Summary:

Maths! This is the subject which usually frightens children. Kids find the Mathematics a very difficult and complicated subject due to the numbers, calculations, operations, polynomials, etc. In the most cases, they continue to hate the subject in their higher classes too. But there are some who find mathematics really interesting and exciting and the reason is pretty simple that they take the subject as a game and find joy in solving the problems.

So, basically, it is possible to make your kids like mathematics and get skilled in it if you teach it to them as a game. But it takes creativity, time and skills to teach maths like a game to kids. Children love games and they love video games even more.

I’m glad you asked, I have a perfect solution for the same and that is Sumdog.

Sumdog is an incredible online service which teaches mathematics through interesting video games. It contains so many educational games which help to motivate your children to learn mathematics and practice it to get skilled in mathematics. Let us know how Sumdog helps in making kids a champ in mathematics.

Features Of Sumdog

Sumdog has got several very useful features to motivate your kids to learn and practice mathematics, reading, writing, spelling and so on. But that’s not all, there are many other things too which Sumdog offers for free. Below are some of the best features of Sumdog. Let’s have a look.

Not Only For Kids

Yes, Sumdog is not made only for kids, it is helpful for parents as well as for teachers. With Sumdog teachers can create their free account and add their students to it. And then they can monitor the progress of the children on Sumdog. They would be able to view the scores, number of correct answers, number of wrong answers, the points of weakness, etc. Teachers can also create assessments or activities for kids so that students can do their assessments at home and teacher can track their progress.

If parents also want to get the updates of their child’s progress then they can also signup to Sumdog for free. They can also play interesting games on it.

Adaptive Learning

The most impressive thing about Sumdog is that it offers adaptive learning. Means, it adapts to each student individually. Sumdog offers the curriculum aligned questions to children according to their level. It does not level up the student until he/she becomes skilled at the current level and then progresses to the higher level in order to teach the students and allows him to practice more and more. First, it takes a diagnostic test so that it can easily calculate the child’s ability and starts accordingly.

Close The Achievement Gap

Closing the achievement gap is one of the motives of Sumdog and that is why it helps every child to achieve its potential. Sumdog has added many things to it to engage the children and target their individual needs. To motivate the children Sumdog offers coins for every correct answer. They can also compete with other students and the will to win the game motivates them to practice more and more whether it is math, reading or writing. Sumdog’s virtual pets are also a thing to reward the progress of the child.

Curriculum-Based

Sumdog also makes sure that all the activities, games etc. are curriculum based so that it can fit your teaching properly. Sumdog has aligned the skills with key curriculum and standards.

Diagnosing Testing

Diagnosing testing is another amazing feature of Sumdog. When the child uses Sumdog for the first time, they take a diagnostic test of so that they can know the level of student and frame the questions accordingly. No, they do not directly ask the question to the child, instead, Sumdog uses game-based activities to test the child’s abilities.

How To Use Sumdog

So, we have learned the features of Sumdog and how it can help improve your kids’ abilities using games. Now lets us know how to use Sumdog. Children can directly play Sumdog just after landing on its website. They can simply select the skill and the game to be played to learn and practice that. But if you are a teacher and want to track the progress of your student then you need to follow the below steps which are pretty easy to understand and follow. Here we go…

I. Signup To Sumdog

The first thing you need to do is to signup to Sumdog which is totally free. So, visit the official website of Sumdog, click signup up button and then enter your details to complete the signup process.

You also have to select your school.

If there is no record of your school then you can add your school by entering the details like school name, address etc.

III. Add Students

Now that you have successfully added your school, it’s time to add students to it.

You only have to enter a few details about the students viz. first name, last name and select the grade which is most important.

View all the students belong to a particular class by selecting the class in future when you want to view the progress of students.

IV. Students Login To Their Account

The moment you add a student to the school, Sumdog automatically creates his/her account details viz. username, password and the school code using which students and login to their accounts and start learning/practicing on Sumdog.

V. Start Learning And Practicing

Give each student their account details to them so that they can start practicing on Sumdog.

You will also be able to view the scores, correct answers, wrong answers, the number of question attempted etc. on your dashboard.

Pricing

Free version

Paid version – You have to request a quote for it (You need the paid version in order to create assessments, activities etc. for your students)

Wrap Up

No doubt that Sumdog is the perfect way to motivate your child to learn and practice maths, writing, and reading. The gaming approach to learning motivates the child to learn and stay engaged to the system. Sumdog is efficient for teachers and parents too to keep track of kids’ progress.

About the author

Shivani Srivastava

Shivani shrivastava is an active tech blogger. She has graduated from Delhi University. She has contributed a number of great and informative articles to the internet. Apart from blogging she loves music, games, puzzles and reading. Share your views with Shivani in the comments.